Manufacture of pulp and treatment of residual liquors, etc.



Jan. 7, 1930.

L. BRADLEY ET AL MANUFACTURE O PULP AND VI'REATHENTYOF RESIDUAL LIQUORS, ETC

Filed March 22, 192s ATTORNEYS Patentd Jan. 7, 1930 'LIEN BMDLEY, GF MNTCL, NEW JERSEY,

il' EDWARD P. ECKEEFE, 0F PLATES- EUEG, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOES T BBaADLEY-liilil GREQRATIOM, OF NEW YQBK,

1. Y., A COBFOEATION 0F NEW Y0 MUECTUBE OF PULP AND i 1:1.:

TMMMIQF RESJEDUUL LEQUGR, ETC.

applicants niet name es, ieee, sensi ne. eener, A

lliis invention relates to improvements inl the treatment of residual liquors from chem? ical pulp making processes for coog Wood with cooking liquors containing caustic soda 5 and reactive sodium-sulfur compounds, such as sodiumfsullid, sodium sulfite, etc.

According to the present invention, the residual liquor is adinxed with calcium carbollate, either before or after final condenli) tration, and Itice v residue from the liquor tvith admired calcium carbonate, is heated 4under reducing conditions to a temperature sufficient to convertv calcium carbqnate into calci oxide; and the vresulting product containing calcium oxide and sodium carbonate, together with sodium-sulfur compounds such assuldes, is added' to water and agitated therein at an elevated temperaturevvitb the resulting directproduction of a liquor containing caustic soda and 'a reactive sodiumvsulfur compound,.such as sodium suld, etca ln the process coonly practiced for the treatment of residual liquors, e. g. from the r s-o-called sulfate process(using' caustic soda 25 and sodium sult'ld) the liquor is concentrated e e and dried and subjected to a smelting operation vvitli the resulting production oi" a product containing sodium carbonate and sodium n suld which is then causticized by adding 9? lime to term a lsolution containing caustic soda and sodiuinsuld..

ln tbe process of the present invention, calcium carbonate is added to the concentrated residual liquor or to the dried product before it is subjected to the turnacing operation, and the urnacing treatment is carried out under reducing conditions and at a suciently high temperature to convert calcium carbonate 40 into calcium oxide, so that'tbe resulting iurnace product can be considered selt-custiciZ-- ing, and so that this product, when added to Water and agitated therein at anl elevated temperature, will give directly 'a custicized I l n s J5 solution contalmng caustic soda and reactive sodium sulfur compounds such as sodium suld, sodium sulte, etc.l

'lne process of the present invention includes improvementsin the 'recovery of the soda content vo tbe residual liquor inthe torno of active sodium compounds in solution for refuses as cooking liquor; in the reb'nrning ol the lime mud; or elude as a part o the regenerating treatment of residual liquor so that it can be utilized for converting sodi carbonate into sodi hydroxide; in the utilizing of the'fuel value ot the organic material-contained in the residual liquor for the urnacing operation in which the calcium carbonate is decomposed; in tbe production of a coolnng liquor containing-caustic soda and reactive sodium-sulfur compounds in a particularly advantageous manner from the residual' liquors of the pulp making process;

and other improvements vvliicli will appearv from the'tollovving more detailed description of the invention.

The accompanying drawing is illustrative` as to torni calcium oxide. This decomposi-A tion is moreover carried out under reducing conditions and with utilization ot the' fuel value of the organic matter of the residual liquor; while the calcium oxide produced as a product of the treatment, is utilized or the conversion ot sodium carbonate which l/ias been formed into sodium hydroxide in a novel and particularly advantageous anner, and with simultaneous production of a liquor 69 elevated temperature. The furnace product containing reactive sodium-sulfur compounds whlch are produced by or contained in the product ofthe furnacing operation carried out under reducing conditions.

The residual liquor treated in the process of the present invention may, for exam le, be residual liquor from the so-ca1led sul ate process in which the cooking liquor contains caustic soda and sodium sulid; or it may be a residualfliquor obtained by the cooking of wood with a cooking liquor containing caustic 4soda and asmaller amount of sodium sulfite; or it may be a residual liquor obtained from the cooking of wood with other cooking liquors containing caustic soda and also containing one or more reactive sodium-sulfur compounds. The residual liquor is separated from the pulp, at the end of the cooking 0peration, 1n any suitable manner, and the liquoris subjected to a concentrating operation to remove Water therefrom and to produce ultimately a dry or substantially dry product which contains for the most part or full the carbonaceous matter of theresidual iquor.

The calcium carbonate or lime mud, which may advantageously be that from the subse quent `causticizing step of the process, together with additional calcium carbonate if necessary to make up for losses or replace-` ments, is 4added to the residual liquor after partial or complete concentration, and the resulting concentrated and dried or substantially dried product -with admixed .calcium- ;arbonate is subjected. to treatment under controlled conditions as to temperature, etc.,

and under reducing conditions, to convert the calcium carbonate to a large extent or completely, into calciumoxide, the tempera-v ture being equal to or somewhat above that required to decompose calcium carbonate. As a result of this treatment, a product is obtained containing the calcium oxide produced from the calcium carbonate and also contain-y product containing sulfur compounds, such as sulfid. The treatment, although under reduc'ing conditions. makes use of the fuel value if the carbonaceous material produced from the residual liquor, with the resulting production of gases which may contain a consid-y erable amount of carbon monoxide and which may be of value and utilizable for fuel purposes.

The product produced by the reduction treatment, and containing calcium oxide, is added to and mixed with a suitable amount of Water, and subjected to lagitation at an can advantageously be added directly to water so that the heat contained in the furnace product is utilized for heating the Water and for promoting the dissolving of valuable compounds and such reactions as take place.

Owing to the self-causticizing character of the furnace product, the sodium carbonate will be in Whole or in part, converted into v caustic soda by the lime which thefurnace product contains. The sulfur containing compounds of the furnace product will be dissolved or'will react to give a solution containing reactive sodium-sulfur compounds, so that a composite liquor will be directly produced containing both caustic soda and such reactive sodium-sulfur compounds. If the` amount of lime produced from calcium carbonate during the process is insuilicient4 for the desired or for. complete causticizing, ad,

lditional lime can be added for that purpose,

insoluble constituents which may be present in the furnace product, is separated from the liquor, and the liquor, e. g. if too strong for use, direct, may be adjusted as Ato strength or composition or both, before use as a cooking li uor.

he calcium carbonate slud e may be returned to the process and ad ed to further amounts of resldual liquor or to concentrated residual li uor in the further carrying out of the resi ual liquor treatment, so that this calcium' carbonate will be reburned in a similar manner to that above described during the carrying out of the reducing furnace' treatment. When the calcium carbonate sludge, after repeated use, becomes contami- Y nated or unsuitable, it may be'well washed to regain the soda admixed therewith, and the Washed lime mud then discarded or other-A wise used and a fresh amount of calcium hy' droxide or calcium carbonate added to the cycle to maintain a sufficient amount of lime in the cycle for the causticizing operation.

Loss of soda and of sulfur compounds can be supplied by adding, for example, sodium carbonate or caustic soda or sodium sulfate at a suitable point in the cycle. Sodium sulfate, for example, should be added to the residual liquor at some point prior to the reducing treatment; while sodium carbonate may be' added to the solution obtained from the furnace product so that it will be causticized by the lime contained therein. Soda and sulfur compounds contained in the stack gases are advantageously recovered, for ex ample, by scrubbing the ases with a suitable meaoao l the liquor has been used a sucient time as a scrubbing liquor, and after it has been increased in soda or in sulfur compounds or in both asa result of such scrubbing operations.

When the calcium carbonate sludge is mired with strong residual liquors, the mir.- ture 'may be subjected to a drying operation and the dried mixture Willthen contain a soda compound and also the calcium carbonate, intimately admired with each other. lnstead adding all ci the calcium carbonate sludge to the strong residual liquor, a part only oi the lime ruud may be added to and mired with the strong black liquor before passing the same tlnough the drier, and another portion oi lime mud may be added to the cycle between the drying and the subsequent heat treatment operations. lin either case, the calcium 'carbonate will be converted to a large extent into calcium oxide, While organic corn-pounds present will be decomposed and will assist in creating and mainn taining the desired reducing condition.

'l'he drying operation can be carried out in any suitable type o'l" dryer, tor example, a

- rotary furnace such as is commonly used in soda pulp mills or sulfate pulp mills for the production ci blaclr ash, either a green ash or a Well burned ash. But when the material is to be destructiyely distilled in Whole or in part and the resulting gases cooled to condense volatile organic liquids and thus recover these materials, it is preferable to avoid obtaining a Well burned ash, and rather to keep the organic compounds present as such in the green ash, as these will be given a higher temperature treatment in a subsequent step from which these Volatile liquids may be obtained. Another vdesirable type of dryer '.s that oi the multiple hearth roaster, such as the Well-known Wedge furnace and the Herresholi" furnace, the mixture oi highly concentrated residual liquor and the lime mud entering at the top and being progressively dried While it descends from one hearth to another. With such equipment which is advantageously heated by the hot gases obtained from the subsequent furnace operation, using the gases as such or alter being burned by addition or more air, the material may be obtained in a substantially dry form With littie if any decomposition of organic compounds having occurred. This is of special advantage When the products of destructive distillation are to be condensed so far as feasible for the recovery of volatile liquids, and the product is obtained of a very uniform character which is of advantage in the succeeding' steps of the process. Any other suitable type of dryer may be used.

i The' heattreatment step of the process, in which calcium carbonate is decomposed under reducing conditions to orm calcium oxide,

can advantageously be carried out in a special type ot burner, tor example, such a machine as Athe well-known Dwight-Lloyd sin-.

tering machine which is commonly used for sintcring ores. Such furnaces or machines' have a travelling grate and areoperated `:with a down draft `with suction botes arranged below the travelling grate tor causing the down draft. When using such a furnace or machine, the .mixture ot calcium carbonate and oit the sodium-organic compounds in a substantially diy form, but carrying suliicient moisture to properly 'term the material on the moving grate, is evenly spread over the grate, andmoyes forward in a continuous heavy sheet, "which is then ignited'by means ot a pilot llame, and air, which may be preheated it desired or found necessary, is drawn downward through the mass, consuming the carbonaceous fuel constituents to a greater or less extent, and driving out gases from the mixture, lln case the material itsel? contains' insndcient fuel value, as Where some or the fuel Value has been consumed during the drying operation, additional fuel can be supplied, and, ior the purpose, some ot the con-- bustible gas termed in the process may be burned aboye the lgrate under a super-imposed hood lined With suitable material which 'allows the heat to be redected down upon the material on the grate, and either Without or with the products ot combustion passing downwardly through the 'material on the grate..

ln'order to protect the grates against the action ot certain compounds contained in the material placed thereon, there may be placed on the gratos, prior to adding the material which contains' the soda compounds, a thin layer ci calcium carbonate, which may advantageously be the nely divided or crushed and screened limestone (preferably of high lime and lovr silica and iron content) which is used for making up for losses or replaceniente of lime mud. 'lhe mixture which contains the soda compounds may then be placed upon this first layer ,oi limestone and the treatment carried out accordingly. rl'his method of placing the material on the gratos assists in keeping the soda compounds. from running down into the openings ot the gratos and it serves to reduce the contact between the soda compounds and the, iron grates, and facilitates discharging the finished material from the gratos, and at the same time it serves to form more calcium oxide and by its cooling action in absorbing heat froml the gases passing through it, the iron gratos are subjected to a lesser temperature than otherwise.

Where the fusing point of the soda compounds is relatively low as compared With the temperature at which calcium carbonate readlli) ily decomposes, e. g. where sodium carbonate and sodium sultid are present, this fusing action tends to seal over and shut oit the air. By having a considerable amount of calcium 'zarbonate intimately mixed with the soda and carbonaceous materials, the gas which is given off from the calcium carbonate tends to keep the mass porous so that the air can be drawn through. vThe carbon dioxide lib- 'irated comes into intimate contact with highly heated carbon and is converted to a considerable extent into carbon monoxide. These endothermic reactions are taken advantage of to aid in preventing excessivey temperatures on the grates. By suitably proportionin the'endo'thermic reactions to the exothermic reactions, the temperature Canmore readily be kept within the required bounds. If the temperature becomes too high, a larger amount of-calcium carbonate can be mixed with the sodium-organic material, the air suction can be reduced so as to pass less air in unit time, and the rate of travel of the moving grates can bechanged.

It is desirable that suitable control means be provided so that a suiiicient temperature may be obtained and maintained for a suiiicient length of time in order to effect the decomposition of the calcium carbonate to pro- -duce calcium oxide, and at the same time to prevent the temperature rising to such a high point that excessive fusion occurs or that an excessive loss of soda results. By usmg the endothermic reactions of decomposition ofcalcium carbonate, a considerable 'degree of control is readily obtained. Further endothermic reactions may be taken advantage of, where required, in order.' to obtain more control. For examplethe conversion of the carbondioxide from t e calcium carbonate into carbon monoxide, at least inpart, will remove carbon from the material and at the same time have a cooling eect. Also steam may be caused to pass through the mass and be therein decomposedfinto carbon monoxide and hydrogen, the degree of conversion depnding u on the conditions; and more carn dioxi e may be used,'whei'e desired, b

using some gaseswhichcontaincarbon dioxi e 4for example, flue gases which contain a fairly high percentage of carbon dioxide. These different materials may be used together or separately as may be found necessary for controlling the temperature. The steam may be added at such points as required in such mannerV that the steam isI drawn downward through the mass, and the same applies to CO2 gas'added for this purpose. Showers of water, finely sprayed above the heated mass also can be resorted to, the water being converted into steam and the steam undergoing some decomposition. The decomposition of either steam or 'carbon dioxide, or both, results in a cooling eiect to control the temperature of the mass and forms some more combustible material inthe es. And 4this form of heat energy can be utilized in another portion of the o rations, as indicated above.

Where the ca cium carbonate is not suiciently decomposed by the time the majority of thel carbonv and other fuels of the mass have been consumed, or where the temperature is tool low from this or other` causes, additional fuel can be burned above the mass (or may even be added to the mass e. g.v by placin saw dust or other suitable fuel there- 1n or t ereon) and the temperature raised to the desired point. Thus a hood may be placed over the moving grates and this hood linedV with suitable fire-resistant lining, and oil or gas burned under the hoodthus permittingthe heat to be reflected down on to the mass. lThe hot products of combustion may be drawn' through themass, if desired, and thus more ei'ectively add' their heat to the material at this point.

During the first part of the furnacingoperation, the organic compounds decompose and considerable destructive distillation occurs. The-gases thus given off in the early portion of the ltreatment may, if desired, be kept separate.' from the gases later formed from the material on the grates, and can be passed through suitable cooling devices to' .teriaL Carbon monoxide formed from carbon and carbon dioxide also increases this caloriiic value.

Some of the gases, especially those which come from the latter part of the treating step and which are highly heated and may not require coolin to recover products of destructive disti ation, may be used either in the drying step or may even be used to heat water or to generate steam, and thissteam may be used in multiple-effect evaporators in which the preliminary evaporation of the black liquor occurs.

Whereamultiplehearth furnace, suchas the Wedge or the'Herreshof furnaces referred to, is utilized for the drying operation, the

hot gases from the burning step of the procesav may be passed over the hearths in succession an thus dry the liquor, etc. as it passes countercurrent to the hot gases. In this manner advantage is taken of the heat units in the gases in a particularly advantageous manner. The material may thus be obtained in a substantially uniform manner. ready to be thereto sothat-a uniform mixture of strong black liquor, lime mud `and material which has previously been dried, can be fed into the drying furnace, using some of the previously dried material to act as a sponge and assist in the preparation of the feed to the dryer.

The other portion of the dried material goes to the burning furnace.

Where the residual liquor contains oxysulfur compounds, these will be subjected to reduction during the heat treating'operation by which the calcium carbonate is converted to calcium oxide, and such Oxy-sulfur compounds, when present, or when added, -will undergoan endothermic reaction of which advantage can be taken in the control of the -temperatures in the burning mass. rIhese Oxy-sulfur compounds may be sodium sulfate, or sodium sulfo-organ'ic and other compounds contained in residual liquor which is formed when wood, etc. .is cooked with cooking liquors which contain a sulfite :of sodium, especially those which contain substantial amounts of sodium sulfte. Such additions may be made as will maintain the desired sodium sulfid content in the regenerated. cooking liquor, thus supplying additions of soda and of sulfur,and

these additions can be so regulated as may be required. Y

from cooking wood with the ordinary aci liquors, containing calcium base. are added to the cycle of the present process, fuel, sulfur and additional lime compounds will be obtained therefrom. This residual liquor may be used for supplying additional lime, to make up for losses or rejections, an also supply sulfur and fuel. The organic contents may be likewise destructively1 distilled and the carbon consumed.

Where a considerable amount of sodium suld is desired in the regenerated cooking liquor, reducing conditions should. b e maintained throughout the furnaeing operations, for example, by maintaining -a .moderate amount f carbon in the furnace product up to the time when it is discharged from the furnace. By reducing the amount of carbon thus present, and passing more air through the mass while hot, the regenerated Icooking liquor may have a moderate aniount of sodium sulfite or other Oxy-sulfur co'mpound or coml ounds. That is, the reducing operations can followed by an oxidizing operation, and the degree of reduction and of oxidation may be controlled to give the sulfur compounds largely in the form of suliid or in the form -of Oxysulfur compounds.

Instead of using a multiple hearth dryer followed by a moving grate type of sintering suliite machine, a single machine may be used with certain advantages. This may be a multiple hearth machine, such as referred to above, and the mixture of lime mud and strong black liquor, containing only a moderate amount of water, can be fed onto the upper hearth. It may be mixed with some of the dried 0r partially dried material to act as a sponge in order to improve its physical condition. The material as it is moved along by lthe revolving rakes and passed downward from Ahearth to hearth, cornes into contact, counter current, with the hot gases introduced at a lower point. These hot gases may be obtained from any suitable fuel, preferably free from silica, and may be formed from the product itself, by introducing air into the lower end of the furnace and burning the fuel of the product after it has dried to the point at which combustion will occur.

The amount of air thus introduced is under good control, and the degree of reduction can be controlled. Additional fuel may be introduced between the top and the bottom so that the material is rst dried, then decomposed, fuel being burned therein for this purpose, and finally the material be passed in contact with air which will serve to cool the material means, so that excessive temperatures areavoided or are so modified as to be under control. i

The simultaneous treatment of the lime mud and the strong residual liquor can be effected in various ways and still make use of the fuel value of the liquor to decompose the sodium organic compounds and also the calcium carbonate for the purposes and objects described above. Use can also be made of the endothermic reactions which have been featured herein. For example, the strong residual liquor and the lime mud, carrying only a moderate amount of water, can 'be thoroughly mixed and kept so and then sprayed or .blown into a suitable furnace which is highly heated', the material being atomined so that combustion ta'kes place. The amount of lime mud which can bethus used Iin admixture with residual liquor will depend upon the conditions.

Where a high temperature is reached, i. e. greater than necessary to maintain the combustion and difficulty is had in maintaining furnace linings, considerable lime mud can be mixed with the strong residual liquor, and the amount of lime mud so added can be increased up to a point at which safe operation is maintained. The cooling effect due to the decomposition of the calcium carbonate aidsin keeping the flame temperature down and thus prolonge the-life of the furnace. The calcium carbonate is readily decomposed since it is in a finely divided condition and is' in intimate contact with the hot flame. The use of lime' mud in this manner has other advantages, among which may be mentioned the assistance in recoverin the sodajrom the gases. With this met od of burnin practically all of thecarbon can ultimate y f be consumed and the regenerated liquor can be more readily clariti l,

Instead of making steam from utilization of the hot gases from the furnace in which the mixture of black li uor and lime mud is decomposed as stated, t ese hot gases may be passed throu h a rotary lime kiln and there- Y- the burning of the carbonaceous material of the liquor. This lime kiln acts to collect vsome of the soda blown out of the highly heated furnace. All of the lime mud may be treated inthe rotar or some of it may be mixed with the blac liquor which goes'into the highly heated furnace. The lime mud may enter the rotary lime kiln alone or may be previously mixed with some liquor.

Instead of burningthe concentrated and dried liquor, in whole or in part, b the spraying method, the lime mud and iquor may be mixed together and passed through a dryer e. g. an ordinary rotary furnace such as referred to above, and therein both dried and subsequently heatedto effect the conversion of calcium carbonate to calcium oxide, so that the product discharged from lthe rotary furnace contains bothcalcium oxide and sodiumcarbonate. Or, the rotary fur- 'nace may be used only for the drying of the material, to make it into a green ash, and this material may then be discharged from this dryer and reintroduced into another similar furnace and therein burned to decompose remaining sodium organic compounds and to convert the calcium carbonate into the oxide, leaving some carbon with the mixture when burned. The hot gases from the burning furnace are utilized in the drying furnace. This use of two furnaces in series, one called the dryer and the other called the burner, permits the ready handling of the material in such furnaces. The material after being ,first dried has considerablefuel value and, with this arrangement, little if any additional fuel is required.

Any suitable kind of dryer may be used, which may be either a rotary furnace of suflicient length and proper diameter to efficiently dry the mixture of lime mud and strong liquor, or it may be a furnace having multiple hearths and revolving takes, oran L other suitable drying furnace maybe use The dried or nearlydried material, preferably containing a 'considerable'l amount of the original sodium `organic compounds, is Capable of generating a considerable amount of heat in the burner. It may bea-sufficient in amount so that additional fuel is not 'required, although additional fuel, preferably free from silica, may be used where required to decompose the carbonate of calcium and to decompose the sodiuml or anic compounds and to reduce any oxy-sul the desired de ree.

In the use o the sintering type of furnace having'the traveling grates, or even with the 4multiple hearth furnace, it is desirable to have the material fairlyporous. In order to insure such degree of porosity'as is most desirable, sawdust which is fairly coarse ma ur compounds to be mixed with the liquor and the lime mu clarifier for the causticized liquor, the thickV lime mud at the bottom may be moved contmuously o r intermittently and mixed with strong residual liquor and sent directly'to the furnace. Or the lime mud may be previously washed, e. g. on a filter, the thickened and washed or partially washed lime mud neing later mixed with stron liquor, and the washings being used in the ormation 0f the I cooking liquors. By avoiding the use of the `filtering step certain advantages are effected.

-It will thus be seenthat the .present invention provides anim roved rocess for the treatmentof residual liquors rom the cooking of wood whereby the liquors after concentrating and drying are subjected to a. reducing furnace treatment, and whereby calcium carbonate is admixed with the liquors before the reducing furnace treatment and is converted into calcium oxide during the furnace treatment, so that a self-causticizing furnace4 product is produced, containing sodium carbonate and lime and also containing sulfur compounds. It will further be seen that this furnace product is added di-V attacco rectly to water and agitated therewith at an elevated tem erature with the resulting causticiz'rng ci) the sodium carbonate by the lime to form caustic soda so that a cooking liquor, or a liquor suitable'tor use in mag a cooking liquor, is directly obtained, oontaining caustic sdda andA also containing sodium-sulfur compounds.

lt will further be seen tliatvtlie dryiii step of the process can be carried out in diierent ways, even separate from or combined with the subsequent furnace operation; While the furnace operation is carried out under reducing conditions and at a temperature sumcient tor the conversion ot calcium carbonate to calcium oxide.. lt will further be noted that the process 'has various advantages and can be carried out with various modifications.

l. 'lhe method oi treating residual liquor from the cooking ot Wood with a cooking Liuor containing caustic soda and a sodiumltur compound which comprises heating the driedresidual liuor in admixture with calcium carbonate fi: er chemicallyreducing conditions at a temperature sucient to convert calcium carbonate into calcium oxide, and admiiting the resulting product with Water and agitating the same at an elevated temperature to produce a solution containing caustic soda and sodium-sulfur compounds. v

` 2. lhe method of treating residual liquor from the cooking o-Wood with a cooking li' uor containing caustic soda and a sodiumsigliur compound which comprises heating thevdried residual liquor in admixture with calcium carbonate under chemically reducing conditions at a temperature suficient to convert calcium carbonate into calcium oxide. 8. 'lhe method of treating residual liquor from the' cooking o Wood with a cooking liquor containing caustic soda and a sodiumsulfur compound which comprises adding calcium carbonate to concentrated residual liquor, subjecting the resulting mixturato a drying operation, and subjecting the dried mixture to a chemically reducing treatment at a temperature sufficient to convert calcium carbonatev into calcium oxide. l. The method of treating residual liquor from the cooking ol Wood with a cooking liquor containing caustic soda and a sodiumsulfur compound which comprises adding calcium carbonate to concen rated residual liquor, subjecting the resulting mixture tol a drying operation, and subjecting the dried mixture to a chemically reducing treatment at a temperature suilicient to convert calcium carbonate into calcium oxide, adding the' resulting product tokwater and agitating the same therewith at an elevated temperature 'to give-,asolution containing caustic soda and sodium-sulfur compounds.

5.. The-method of treating residual liquor from the cooking of Wood with a` cooking liquor containing caustic soda and a sodiumsulfur compound which comprises heating the dried residual liquor in admixture with calcium carbonate under chemicallyv reduc-f ing conditions at a-temperature suicient to convert calcium carbonate into calcium oxide,

the heating operationv being carried out on a traveling grate A"and 'with a down draft v through the material.

6. The method of treating residual liquor lfrom thecooking ot yvood with a cooking. liquor containing caustic soda and a sodiumsulfur compound which comprises addingv precipitated calcium carbonate to concentrated residualliqucr, subjectingl the resulting xture toa drying operation, -and subjecting the dried mixture to a chemically reducing treatment at a temperature sumcient to convert calcium carbonate into calciuml oxide, thedrying operation being carried out in a multiple hearth drier through which the material is caused to pass in a progressive and continuous manner. l

7. The method of treating residual liojuory trom the cooking ot wood 1with a cooking liquor containingjcaustic soda and a sodiumsulfur compound which comprises heating the dried residual liquor in adminture with( l?? calcium carbonate under chemicallyreducing conditions at a temperature suicie'nt to convert calcium carbonate into calcium oxide, the heating being carried out on a continuous moving grate and a layer of calcium carbon ate being interposed between the grate and the charge thereon.

8. The method of vtreating residual liquor trom the cooking ot Woodl Witha cooking liquor containing caustic soda and asodiumsulfur compound which comprises adding precipitated calcium carbonate to concentrated residual liquor, subjecting the resulting mixture to a drying operation, and subjecting the dried mixture to a chemically re- A ducing treatmentat a temperature.- sumcient l to convert calcium carbonate into calcium oxide, the hot gasestro'm the last mentionedV operation being employed in the previous drying operation.: 9. rlhe method of treating residual-liquor trom the cooking of Wood with a cooking liquor containing caustic soda and a sodium- `sultur compound which comprises adding precipitated .calcium carbonate to concenv trated residual liquor, subjecting the resulting'mixture to a drying operation, and subjecting .e dried mixture to a chemically redlicingtreatmcnt at a temperature sucient to convert calcium carbonate into calcium. oxide, the drying operation being promoted by admixture of previously dried material `with the concentrated residual liquor and calcium carbonate before the drying operation.

' 10. The method of treating residual liquor from the cooking of wood with a cooking licuor containing caustic soda and a sodiumsu fur compound which comprises heatin the dried residual liquor in admixture with calcium carbonate under chemicall ing conditions at a temperaturesu cient to convert calcium carbonate into calcium oxide, the heatin operation bein carried out in stages with estructive distil ation during the preliminary stage'and the gases formed by the destructive distillation being se arately collected for theurecovery of valua le products therefrom.

11. The c vclic or regenerative nprocess of pulp manu acture which comprises cooking wood withl a cooking liquor containing caus. tic soda and a sodium-sulfur compound, concentrati anddryin heating t e dried resi ual liquor in admixture with precipitated calcium carbonate under chemically reducing conditions at a temerature suilicient to convert calcium carnate into calcium oxide and to form sodium carbonate, adding the resulting product to water and agitating the same at an elevated temperature to ive a cooking licuor containing caustic so a and sodium-su fur compound, and carrying out the further Cookin operation' with such liquor.

12. he method of treating residual liquor 'from the cooking of wood with a cookin liquor containingcaustic soda and a sodgiumsulfur ,compoundv which comprises adding calcium carbonate to concentrated residual li uor, subjecting the resulting mixture to a rying operation, ,and subjecting the dried mixture to a chemlcally reducing treatment at a temperature suicient to convert calcium carbonate into calcium oxide, the drying and subsequent heating operation beinlgl carried out so as to eiect destructive disti ation of organic matter before the final furnacing operation and separately collecting the gaseous products of the destructive distillation and recovering valuable constituents therefrom.

13. The method of treating residual liquor from the cooking of wood with a liquor ontaining a sodium compound w 'ch comprises mixing calclum carbonate with constituents of the residual liquor, sub]ect ing the mixture to a treatment adapted to convert calcium carbonate into calcium oxide andto convert sodium compounds into sodium carbonate and sodium suld, mixing the resulting product with water under conditions adapted to produce caustic soda and precipitate calcium carbonate recovering a solution containing caustic soda and sodium suld and utilizing such solution for cooking of wood.

14. The method of supplying lime, sulfur 4and fuel to the cycle defined in claim- 13,

which comprises adding to the mixture of sodium compounds and calcium carbonate reducthe residual liquor, l

constituents of a residual liduo'r from a calcium blsulite .cooking process.

15. The method according to claim 13 in i tures.'

LINN BRADLEY. EDWARD P. MCKEEFE. 

